Book launch @ UN Library in Geneva “The Additional Protocols 40 Years Later: New Conflicts, New Actors, New Perspectives”

The proceedings of the last Sanremo Round Table“The Additional Protocols 40 Years Later: New Conflicts, New Actors, New Perspectives” will be officially presented next Friday 13 July 2018 at the UN Library in Geneva from 12.30 to 14.00.

The book, which collects the contributions made at the Round Table held in Sanremo from 7 to 9 September 2017 by renowned international experts and practitioners in the field of IHL, recall the 40th anniversary of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions and address, among others, the central issue of sexual and gender violence in armed conflicts and the integration of a gender perspective into IHL.

The event, organized in collaboration with the UN Library in Geneva within the framework of the Institute’s Summer Course on IHL, will provide an interesting discussion with contributions from Fausto Pocar, President of the International Institute of humanitarian Law; Cynthia Petrigh, Director of Beyond Peace and member of the Institute; and Anne Quentin, Head of the ICRC Advisory Service Unit. The panel will be moderated by Michel Veuthey, Vice President of the Institute.